Improvement in dolls



M. M. STEUBER. D011.

No. 205,314. Patented June 25,1878.

METERS, FHOTO-LITMOQRAFHEH, WASHWGTON. D C

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARY M. STEUBER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT lN DOLLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 205,314, dated June 25, 1878; application filed March 5, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARY M. STEUBER, of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Dolls, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawing.

I11 the drawing referred to, Figure 1 is a View of the leg, stocking, and boot complete. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section through the leg, stocking, and boot.

This invention relates to a class of dollbodies that are completed for the trade, with stockings and boots; and it consists in the combination, with the leg of a doll, of a stockin g and boot so formed as to make the whole in one thickness of material only, and complete in one sewing, thereby obviating, as in the old style, the necessity of first forming the leg and foot of the doll, filling same, and then making, drawing on, and securing in place both the stocking and boot.

The following is a description of my invention: The body and legs above the knees are made and filled in the ordinary way. Below the knee Ain the drawings is a portion of the improved leg. B is the stocking, sewed to A, taking the place of the usual extension of the leg proper. O is the boot, sewed at its upper part to the lower part of the stocking B, this also taking the place of the ordinary extension The leg of the ankle and foot as now made.

A, from the kneej oin t, the stocking B, and boot G are cut to the desired size and shape, sewed together, as stated above, the back seams closed, and the leg, stocking, and boot turned and filled, making the same complete.

1t will be seen from the above description that an improved form and neater appearance, and at a material reduction in the cost of manufacture, is secured bythis improvement.

I do not claim the combination, with the leg and foot of a doll, of a stocking and boot when made in the ordinary way; but

What I do claim is- 1. The combination, with the upper part of the leg of a doll, of the lower part of the leg A,

stocking B, and boot 0, when formed, put

together, and constructed substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. In the manufacture of legs for dolls, the process herein described, which consists in sewing the stocking B to the leg A and the shoe 0 to the stocking B previous to sewing or uniting the back seams, then uniting and filling, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

MARY M. STEUBER.

\Vitnesses:

J. GORDON SHOWAKER, HENRY SMITH. 

